In Through the Out Door
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 16
"All I'm saying, " Zac said to Karry, "is that Melvin Lazarus is head over for our Sassy."
"Is he really?" Karry asked surprised. "Poor kid. I mean be's nice but he's just a boy. He's eleven and Sasporilla's almost sixteen."
"I know." Zac sighed. "Maybe there's a spell to make Sasporilla younger, like the one Madrigal used to get older."
"Even if there was," Karry smiled, "I can't imagine her wanting to go back to eleven years old."
"I know I wouldn't." Zac said.
"Me either." Karry laughed.
The dueling club room was already a buzz with activity. Sasporilla Bucket was on the dueling stage with Penny. Sassy wasn't trying to use her ability to see the fabric of magic but by the lightning fast reactions she showed, it was pretty obvious she was.
Karry pulled the Official Competitive Wizard Dueling rule book from her bag and handed it to the Headmistress.
"Did you find it useful Miss Curtiss?" Professor McGonagall smiled.
"Yes professor I did." Karry nodded. "But I found something that concerned me as well."
"Oh?" Professor McGonagall said curiously. "What would that be?"
"Page seven hundred twenty four, appendix Y, subsection 3b 'Concerning Elf Bloods." Karry said with an air of concern.
The Headmistress put the book down on the equipment table and skimmed through from the back, as the rule was on one of the final pages.
"Concerning Elf bloods." Professor McGonagall read. "As 'Elf Bloods' are a stain on our community and taint our sport with special abilities and talents beyond those of normal wizards, any known elf blood wishing to compete must be fitted with an Iron Conflux bracelet to block all elf blood abilities and ensure the purity of our sport."
Professor McGonagall pursed her lips thinking. "I really don't like this ruling."
"I certainly don't!" Karry said. "That's blatant racism right out of the Death Eater mentality."
"Miss Bucket!" Professor McGonagall called. "A quick word please."
Sassy raised her wand to salute Penny and hopped down off the stage. "Yes Headmistress?"
"I'm afraid we've discovered a rule that may cause a problem." The headmistress said a bit worried digging through the equipment bag. "I need you to try on a bracelet for me."
"A jewelry problem?" Sasporilla laughed amused.
"Not exactly." Karry said pointing at the book. "Here read this."
Sasporilla read the section Karry had pointed to and couldn't believe her eyes. The rules were racially biased against her.
"Ok so I have to wear a Conflux Bracelet?" Sasporilla asked. "What exactly does it do?"
"We don't EXACTLY know." Professor McGonagall said.
"I'm hoping it doesn't do much." Karry said as the headmistress pulled out a mall box from the bag. Inside the box was what appeared to be a simple iron bracelet but Sasporilla could see the truth of it. The bracelet was woven by weaver elves. It broke the fabric of magic around it.
Sasporilla grabbed it from the box and clamped it around her wrist. Sasporilla watched as the fabric of magic around her vanished.
"Do you feel any different." Karry asked.
"No." Sasporilla said.
"Try a spell on the target dummy." The headmistress encouraged the young witch walking her over to the practice area. Sasporilla stood tall and pointed her wand dead center of the target dummy.
"Flippendo!" Sasporilla cast with no reaction.
"Stupify!" She tried again.
"Bombarda!" Sassy cast but with no effect.
"I was afraid of this." Professor McGonagall said. "I know you draw your power from the elven ways. You've used it to fuel the way of magic we teach you here. That's why we had you work with the house elves for a year. So you could learn their way."
Sasporilla held it her hand, calmed down and snapped her fingers, once, twice, three times. Nothing. She looked at the large pitcher of ice water on the counter. She tried to feel the water, to move it and call it to her. She was cut off from nature as well.
"This bracelet is designed to block all of an elves power." Sasporilla said. "With it on, I'm just a normal person. A muggle."
"This is outrageous!" Karry protested. "They can't do this can they professor?"
"I most certainly intend to lodge a formal protest!" Professor McGonagall said. "Now take it off dear."
Sasporilla moved to take it off and there was an audible click locking it in place. As Sassy struggled with the bracelet the dividing seam between the two sides of the conflux bracelet sealed closed and turned black.
"It's locked itself on." Sasporilla said unable to remove it. Smoke started to pour from under the bracelet and Sasporilla screamed in pain. The young witch pushed her hand and wrist into the water pitcher.
"It burns!" Sasporilla screamed.
Professor McGonagall pulled Sasporillas arm from the ice water and tried to cast a spell on her to deaden the pain. The magic fizzled out when it got near the bracelet. The head mistress poured the ice water into a towel trapping the ice and wrapped around the arm of the pink haired witch.
"We need to get you to the infirmary."
No magic worked on or near the conflux bracelet. Spells could not remove it nor would potions to heal the wearer would not sooth or comfort. No professor had seen this sort of magic before. Everyone was at a loss. The bracelet had burned a number onto Sasporillas wrist. "EB3717"
The minister of magic Kingsly Shacklebolt was summoned and came immediately. When he arrived Headmistress McGonagall lead him to the infirmary.
"Kingsly." The headmistress said. "I can't help but feel our miss Bucket was targeted."
"I promise you Minerva I will get to the bottom of this out rage!" The minister said.
He burst into the infirmary and rushed to Sasporillas bed side. She was surrounded by her friends. Lyra inspected the bracelet, while Korry held her hand. Karry was busy trying to find any reference to this kind of magical item being used before. Kingsly Shacklebolt inspected the bracelet.
"How do you feel?" Kingsly asked.
"My wrist hurts from the burn." Sasporilla said. "Other than that, I feel helpless."
"We'll do everything we can to remove it." The minister of magic smiled. "And we will bring the person who did this to justice."
"Minister?" Sassy asked. "It have me a number. Does that mean there's been 3716 others branded this way?"
"Yours is the first case I've heard of." Kingsly said. "But that does beg to ask, if others have been stripped of power and branded, where are they?"
A young man carrying a very lovely bouquet of hot house grown Daisies walked into the infirmary and over to Sasporillas bed. Melvin Lazarus wore his best school robes and even combed his hair.
"Hello Sasporilla." Melvin smiled not showing his disappointment that Korry held her hand. "I heard you were hurt in dueling club. I brought these for you. Professor Sprout let me pick some."
"Thank you Melvin they're lovely." Sassy smiled as Madam Pomfrey brought over a vase.
"If I thought I'd spend half my career fetching vases for flowers I'd have become a florist!" Madam Pomfrey chuckled.
"I'm sorry." Melvin apologized. "I didn't mean to make more work for you madam Pomfrey."
"Don't be silly lad." Madam Pomfrey laughed.
"That was very nice of you Melvin." Karry said.
"Yes it most certainly was a thoughtful gift." Sassy said. "I do love Daises."
Hagrid burst in carrying a large pair of bolt cutters he got from the grounds shed.
"This'll cut tha' thing off!" Hagrid said placing the bracelet into the steel jaws. He pushed the handles with all of his might. A quick flash from the bracelet and Hagrid flew back across the infirmary and crashed hard into the wall.
"Apparently it doesn't intend to come off quite so easily." Kingsly Shacklebolt said.
"I'm afraid you may be stuck with it until we can figure out how to get it off of you."
"I have an idea who may know." Sasporilla said. "But contacting them might be very dangerous."
"All I'm saying, " Zac said to Karry, "is that Melvin Lazarus is head over for our Sassy."
"Is he really?" Karry asked surprised. "Poor kid. I mean be's nice but he's just a boy. He's eleven and Sasporilla's almost sixteen."
"I know." Zac sighed. "Maybe there's a spell to make Sasporilla younger, like the one Madrigal used to get older."
"Even if there was," Karry smiled, "I can't imagine her wanting to go back to eleven years old."
"I know I wouldn't." Zac said.
"Me either." Karry laughed.
The dueling club room was already a buzz with activity. Sasporilla Bucket was on the dueling stage with Penny. Sassy wasn't trying to use her ability to see the fabric of magic but by the lightning fast reactions she showed, it was pretty obvious she was.
Karry pulled the Official Competitive Wizard Dueling rule book from her bag and handed it to the Headmistress.
"Did you find it useful Miss Curtiss?" Professor McGonagall smiled.
"Yes professor I did." Karry nodded. "But I found something that concerned me as well."
"Oh?" Professor McGonagall said curiously. "What would that be?"
"Page seven hundred twenty four, appendix Y, subsection 3b 'Concerning Elf Bloods." Karry said with an air of concern.
The Headmistress put the book down on the equipment table and skimmed through from the back, as the rule was on one of the final pages.
"Concerning Elf bloods." Professor McGonagall read. "As 'Elf Bloods' are a stain on our community and taint our sport with special abilities and talents beyond those of normal wizards, any known elf blood wishing to compete must be fitted with an Iron Conflux bracelet to block all elf blood abilities and ensure the purity of our sport."
Professor McGonagall pursed her lips thinking. "I really don't like this ruling."
"I certainly don't!" Karry said. "That's blatant racism right out of the Death Eater mentality."
"Miss Bucket!" Professor McGonagall called. "A quick word please."
Sassy raised her wand to salute Penny and hopped down off the stage. "Yes Headmistress?"
"I'm afraid we've discovered a rule that may cause a problem." The headmistress said a bit worried digging through the equipment bag. "I need you to try on a bracelet for me."
"A jewelry problem?" Sasporilla laughed amused.
"Not exactly." Karry said pointing at the book. "Here read this."
Sasporilla read the section Karry had pointed to and couldn't believe her eyes. The rules were racially biased against her.
"Ok so I have to wear a Conflux Bracelet?" Sasporilla asked. "What exactly does it do?"
"We don't EXACTLY know." Professor McGonagall said.
"I'm hoping it doesn't do much." Karry said as the headmistress pulled out a mall box from the bag. Inside the box was what appeared to be a simple iron bracelet but Sasporilla could see the truth of it. The bracelet was woven by weaver elves. It broke the fabric of magic around it.
Sasporilla grabbed it from the box and clamped it around her wrist. Sasporilla watched as the fabric of magic around her vanished.
"Do you feel any different." Karry asked.
"No." Sasporilla said.
"Try a spell on the target dummy." The headmistress encouraged the young witch walking her over to the practice area. Sasporilla stood tall and pointed her wand dead center of the target dummy.
"Flippendo!" Sasporilla cast with no reaction.
"Stupify!" She tried again.
"Bombarda!" Sassy cast but with no effect.
"I was afraid of this." Professor McGonagall said. "I know you draw your power from the elven ways. You've used it to fuel the way of magic we teach you here. That's why we had you work with the house elves for a year. So you could learn their way."
Sasporilla held it her hand, calmed down and snapped her fingers, once, twice, three times. Nothing. She looked at the large pitcher of ice water on the counter. She tried to feel the water, to move it and call it to her. She was cut off from nature as well.
"This bracelet is designed to block all of an elves power." Sasporilla said. "With it on, I'm just a normal person. A muggle."
"This is outrageous!" Karry protested. "They can't do this can they professor?"
"I most certainly intend to lodge a formal protest!" Professor McGonagall said. "Now take it off dear."
Sasporilla moved to take it off and there was an audible click locking it in place. As Sassy struggled with the bracelet the dividing seam between the two sides of the conflux bracelet sealed closed and turned black.
"It's locked itself on." Sasporilla said unable to remove it. Smoke started to pour from under the bracelet and Sasporilla screamed in pain. The young witch pushed her hand and wrist into the water pitcher.
"It burns!" Sasporilla screamed.
Professor McGonagall pulled Sasporillas arm from the ice water and tried to cast a spell on her to deaden the pain. The magic fizzled out when it got near the bracelet. The head mistress poured the ice water into a towel trapping the ice and wrapped around the arm of the pink haired witch.
"We need to get you to the infirmary."
No magic worked on or near the conflux bracelet. Spells could not remove it nor would potions to heal the wearer would not sooth or comfort. No professor had seen this sort of magic before. Everyone was at a loss. The bracelet had burned a number onto Sasporillas wrist. "EB3717"
The minister of magic Kingsly Shacklebolt was summoned and came immediately. When he arrived Headmistress McGonagall lead him to the infirmary.
"Kingsly." The headmistress said. "I can't help but feel our miss Bucket was targeted."
"I promise you Minerva I will get to the bottom of this out rage!" The minister said.
He burst into the infirmary and rushed to Sasporillas bed side. She was surrounded by her friends. Lyra inspected the bracelet, while Korry held her hand. Karry was busy trying to find any reference to this kind of magical item being used before. Kingsly Shacklebolt inspected the bracelet.
"How do you feel?" Kingsly asked.
"My wrist hurts from the burn." Sasporilla said. "Other than that, I feel helpless."
"We'll do everything we can to remove it." The minister of magic smiled. "And we will bring the person who did this to justice."
"Minister?" Sassy asked. "It have me a number. Does that mean there's been 3716 others branded this way?"
"Yours is the first case I've heard of." Kingsly said. "But that does beg to ask, if others have been stripped of power and branded, where are they?"
A young man carrying a very lovely bouquet of hot house grown Daisies walked into the infirmary and over to Sasporillas bed. Melvin Lazarus wore his best school robes and even combed his hair.
"Hello Sasporilla." Melvin smiled not showing his disappointment that Korry held her hand. "I heard you were hurt in dueling club. I brought these for you. Professor Sprout let me pick some."
"Thank you Melvin they're lovely." Sassy smiled as Madam Pomfrey brought over a vase.
"If I thought I'd spend half my career fetching vases for flowers I'd have become a florist!" Madam Pomfrey chuckled.
"I'm sorry." Melvin apologized. "I didn't mean to make more work for you madam Pomfrey."
"Don't be silly lad." Madam Pomfrey laughed.
"That was very nice of you Melvin." Karry said.
"Yes it most certainly was a thoughtful gift." Sassy said. "I do love Daises."
Hagrid burst in carrying a large pair of bolt cutters he got from the grounds shed.
"This'll cut tha' thing off!" Hagrid said placing the bracelet into the steel jaws. He pushed the handles with all of his might. A quick flash from the bracelet and Hagrid flew back across the infirmary and crashed hard into the wall.
"Apparently it doesn't intend to come off quite so easily." Kingsly Shacklebolt said.
"I'm afraid you may be stuck with it until we can figure out how to get it off of you."
"I have an idea who may know." Sasporilla said. "But contacting them might be very dangerous."
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.